I’m planning on starting work on a Texan after a year or so of hiatus from modelling, and since I’m not even going to attempt the bare metal scheme, I’m going with the yellow one. This of course leads to the problem of yellow paint. I don’t have a functional airbrush, and even if I did, I have nowhere to do any real spraying.
I don’t know if hand brushing yellow paint is even possible, and I’m not sure what kind of primer to use, white or grey. Please help me out!
hmm…yellow is one of those colors that requires 1+ infinity coats of paint.
What i do is prime white on the model. Then paint yellow over it in the same manner, light and many coats.
With brush painting…it’s gonna take awhile with thinned paint, but, you will love the results and they will love you back!
Good luck!
-Brian
I may be pulling at straws here, as I’ve never tried it, but how about a rattle can under coat of basic yellow. After letting that cure for 2 days then using your brush coat on top of that. This will give your brush coat something to hold it.
I know you mentioned that you don’t have any where to spray, but I’m sure you could come up with some place to spray a quick base coat. Unless of course you live in a biosphere?
For yellow, try silver, then white, then yellow. The silver makes the white a more effective undercoat.
Silver as a base coat for yellow is a good idea. I recommend Tamiya’s AS-12 Aircraft silver rattle can. You may decide it works “good enough” as a bare metal paint job. If not, it makes a terrific primer for the yellow.
Unless you’re really stuck without ANY place to spray. You could try painting their X-11 Chrome Silver. I’ve never tried brush painting a large area with it. I suggest re-mixing it on a regular basis as the metallic particles settle quickly.
I could probably spray outside, but it’s always either very hot and humid or it’s winter.
I spray outside where it’s REALLY humid, and amazingly, have no trouble. I have no water in the moisture trap of my airbrush hose either.
I like to use a white primer, flat yellow, then gloss yellow. If you don’t have flat yellow add a flat base to your gloss, or mix the gloss with some flat white. You can also try flat yellow then clear gloss coats. Just some suggestions.
I forget whether you said you’ve got an airbrush or not, but I personally wouldn’t brush it by hand. I don’t possess that much patience…airbrush, or spray cans for me. And I agree either way you paint it, definately use a primer. If you’re doing acrylics, and don’t have a flat yellow, as sizzlak said, mix a flat base (Tamiya X-something Flat Base) with it until you achieve the desired shininess.
I think the instructions call for flat yellow. I don’t know if that makes sense, I’ve never seen a matte yellow Texan.
Me neither, but I’ve only seen ones today that people purchased surplus or some other way. All the privately owned ones I have seen are gloss trainer yellow.
My first plane kit ever was a BF-109E. I always liked the yellow nose and tail and I brush paint that with unthinned testors gloss yellow then put a flat coat over top of it. It worked fine and looks alright. Coverage wise it only took one coat and went on smooth. Ill post a picture in a bit.